Colombia's Petro to name Edwin Palma as new energy minister, source says


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  • Thursday, 27 Feb 2025

FILE PHOTO: Colombian President Gustavo Petro speaks during his visit and after a binational council of ministers, in Jacmel, Haiti January 22, 2025. REUTERS/Marckinson Pierre/File Photo

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's President Gustavo Petro will name unionist and former vice-minister of labor Edwin Palma as the country's new energy minister, as part of a cabinet reshuffle, a source in Petro's office said.

Petro asked all his ministers to present their resignations earlier this month, after a tense televised cabinet meeting and the definitive resignations of his environment and interior ministers.

(Reporting by Luis Jaime Acosta; Writing by Julia Symmes Cobb)

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